Zhang Aijia, an actress who is obsessed with movies, grasps youth, is enthusiastic about helping others, and always thinks that she is not beautiful enough.
An ambitious actress who is not willing to fall behind and has the courage to be enterprising.
Her persistence became the driving force in her career and built self-confidence in her tempering.
She entered the film and television industry from a female student who sang Chinese and foreign songs, from a shining to an outstanding singer, TV host, director, producer, and many award-winning movie stars.
This slow-heat actress is already recognized as a talented woman in the Taiwanese film industry.
Zhang Aijia was born in Taipei on July 21, 1953, with his ancestral home in Wutai, Shanxi.
His grandfather, Wei Jingmeng, was the director of the Kuomintang Central News Agency, the director of the Information Bureau, and a national policy adviser.
Her mother's name is Wei Shujuan, and her father, Zhang Wenzhuang, is a pilot, and her family life is happy.
When the weather was unpredictable, Zhang Wenzhuang was ordered to pick up Ye Gongchao, who had returned to Taiwan from the United States, and the plane encountered a powerful air current over Hsinchu, and the plane was destroyed and killed.
Zhang Aijia grew up in an American school in Taipei, and then went to the United States to study for three years.
She speaks fluent and standard English, is smart and lively, and after graduating from high school, she went to TV stations to sing Chinese and foreign songs and host popular music programs.
Zhang Aijia spent her girlhood in an environment full of musical atmosphere.
She recorded the popular record "Childhood", which is her masterpiece.
Zhang Aijia's "Love Song" was all the rage, and she sang the theme song for the film she starred in.
She also founded Fruit Records with a friend, which set a new ground in the field of pop music.
In the early 1970s, she hosted the tv show "Behind the Scenes" which was well received.
Later, he directed and starred in the TV series "Do You Love Me?" 》。
In the early 1980s, she produced "Eleven Women" for Taiwan Television, and she directed "My Own Sky".
The TV station had promised to pay her 400,000 yuan, but it turned out that nothing was paid.
Although Zhang Aijia did not care about money, she expressed dissatisfaction with the TV station's failure to keep its promises.
Her grandfather, Wei Jingmeng, produced a program for Taiwan television, "Chinese", the first series of 13 episodes.
In November 1982, Wei Jingmeng died, and the TV station asked Zhang Aijia to take over.
Zhang Aijia refused on the grounds that his own learning was inferior to that of his grandfather, for fear of becoming a dog-tailed sable and humiliating his late grandfather.
Zhang Aijia's unit drama "A Woman Like Me", which was planned and produced by Taiwan's CCTV, won the Bronze Medal Award for Drama at the International Film and Television Festival in New York, USA in 1986.
Her American television series "The Pretty Nurse" was one of the top ten best TELEVISION films in the United States in 1979.
Zhang Aijia is not a famous, lucky actress.
In 1973, Zhang Aijia's first film was the martial arts film "Flying Tiger Little Bully".
The film, which depicts the police battling drug dealers, was not released because of the use of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial As a location and more violent footage.
It was not until 1982, when Zhang Aijia became a film queen, famous and appealing, that the film was modified and renamed "Air Samurai" and was not allowed to be released.
If Zhang Aijia had used her grandfather as a backstage, this film might not have been refrigerated for ten years.
Zhang Aijia despises this kind of backdoor behavior, and she would rather make a film with her ability than do a mundane thing that makes the world laugh.
Zhang Aijia, who was only 20 years old at the time, was young and had already seen an extraordinary temperament.
In the 1970s, when taiwanese actresses were mentioned, they blurted out Shuanglin - Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao. These two actresses are beautiful and have made a lot of literary films, and their popularity is high.
Zhang Aijia and Shuanglin are about the same age, and the star fortune is different.
Zhang Aijia filmed literary and art films such as "Double Heaven To", "Dragon and Tiger Hero", "Wild Duck's Dusk", "Jasmine", "B Character Special Gong Team" and other literary and art films, and martial arts films, but they did not break out of the fame.
Co-starred with Lin Qingxia in "Eight Hundred Heroes" and "Dream of the Red Chamber of the Golden Jade Liangyuan", although she performed well, the light was still covered.
People fear that the Milky Way will lose this star.
In the cloudy period, Zhang Aijia starred in Yu Bihan in "Biyun Tian", she played a young girl who was abused by her stepmother and had a strong idea of repaying kindness, which made people sympathetically sigh.
In 1976, she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 14th Golden Horse Awards and the Golden Crown Shield Acting Special Award at the 22nd Asian Film Festival.
Zhang Aijia said that her whole body had no attraction except for a pair of large black and white eyes that shone with brilliance.
The beauty of many actresses is packaged, but Zhang Aijia has not worked hard in this regard.
Usually, she is always relaxed and natural, dressed casually, and does not have the style of a big star.
Take a look at her self-deprecating and unbeautiful words, which contain confidence and self-confidence in talent.
Zhang Aijia used the stage name Aijia when she went to Hong Kong to shoot films, and then she went to the United States for short-term acting training.
The teacher said to her, "You already have potential, just use these ways of learning now to figure it out, but you must have your own things." ”
These words left a deep impression on her.
Under the careful guidance of the famous director Li Wanxiang, she has made a leap in acting skills, so that she knows how to master a role, and since then, she has embarked on the ladder of acting school.
When she played the female ghost Zhuang Yiyun in "Legend in the Mountains" directed by Hu Jinquan, she learned screenwriting, directing and editing from Hu Jinquan while filming, and learned to take photos from the famous male star Sun Yue, who filmed together, which made her germinate the idea of doing behind-the-scenes work.
In the early 1980s, Zhang Aijia played Princess Shengping in the Huangmei-tuned costume film "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", which was very popular after the release, making her from "acting skills without box office" to a popular and popular movie star.
In 1981, in a film about the elderly, "My Grandpa", she played a virtuous, gentle and patient daughter-in-law Yizhen who waited for her husband.
She delicately expresses the virtues of a loving and hard-working modern woman.
The role itself is not prominent, but her performance is very moving.
In taiwan's 18th Golden Horse Awards, she won the Best Actress Award with the praise of "nothing but her".
Zhang Aijia has twice participated in the golden horse award ceremony, and this time her mood after winning the award is: "I hope to get this award, but if I don't get it, I will never be depressed and unhappy." My own worth will never change because of this award. When I win the award, I will not be fluttering at all, I am a calm, self-aware person. ”
Out of ideals and interests, Zhang Aijia co-formed a big picture company with friends in Hong Kong, the first work was "Crazy Robbery" (1980), directed by Hui Anhua and starring Zhang Aijia.
This fact-based homicide realistic film became a milestone in Hong Kong's New Wave cinema.
The film won the Excellent Feature Film Award at the 17th Golden Horse Awards.
The film not only laid the foundation for Hui Anhua's directorial status, but also established the foundation of Zhang Aijia's film circle in Hong Kong.
Zhang Aijia also invested in films such as "Diary of a Girl".
She has opened up new avenues in Hong Kong.
From 1981 to 1986, the "Best Partner" (also known as "Skinhead Detective Thief Yuan") produced by Hong Kong New Arts City Company, and the sequel "Best Partner Shows Great Magic", "The Empress's Secret Order" and "Thousand Miles to Save the Poor Woman", these four films are rich in content, fast-paced, using modern, cartoon-based technology, playing eight treasures, laughing materials, and are new Hong Kong action comedies.
Mai Jia played the bald detective invited from the United States, and Zhang Aijia played the poor woman (that is, the female superintendent), and the two were ordered to cooperate in solving the diamond theft case.
At the first meeting, the poor woman mistakenly treated the bald detective as a thief and put on handcuffs and escorted him to the police station.
In the early days of cooperation, the two were incompatible and often clashed.
The so-called no fight and no acquaintance, this evil and internal soft poor woman unconsciously fell in love with the bald detective, so the case was solved and the romance progressed on both feet.
In the sequel, the two not only married, but also had a small bald head.
The poor woman was killed and taken hostage by the New Zealand underworld organization, and the bald detective went through all the hardships and went to the rescue.
This set of films not only became a Hong Kong blockbuster, but also won the most popular Chinese film award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Zhang Aijia plays a rude and savage masculine poor woman, because of the melting of love, from a Hedong lion to a young woman with a love pulse.
Her strong and gentle expression is simply a demonstration of acting skills.
Only when Zhang Aijia plays the poor wife, this set of films can become the best partner worthy of the name.
Zhang Aijia boldly destroyed the image she had created in the past, and she wrote a gimmicky biography of a poor woman in the history of her own performance.
She treats comedy as an emotional vacation.
She hopes to win a comedy award to improve the status of comedy films.
When the comedy film "Night Terror" starring Zhang Aijia was on trial in Taiwan, it was ready to cut 8 parts, but due to her opposition, the whole film was not cut.
"Best Partner" was released in the United States and Canada and sold very well, with a net profit of $200,000.
Some people in Taiwan ridiculed her for "eating inside and eating outside", and she said very angrily: "The Taiwan film industry does not seek progress, stands still, sticks to the same set of the past, and is getting farther and farther away from the standard of Hong Kong film production. ”
Zhang Aijia's talent is favored by the Hong Kong film industry. She was hired as the director of the Taiwan branch of New Art City, and she "used" her authority to recruit Taiwan's emerging directors Lin Qingjie, Ke Yizheng, Yang Dechang, and Yu Jieping.
She has supervised or starred in films such as "On stage and off stage", "Child with a Sword", especially "Hitchhiking", which was a sensation, re-screened in Taiwan for 8 times, and won the Golden Horse Award and the Golden Film Award.
Zhang Aijia played Lin Jiali in "A Day on the Beach", she accurately portrayed this female character whose marriage was frustrated, passive and bland, and was selected by the Taiwan Film Critics Association as the best actress of the 1983 Chinese film with her excellent acting skills.
In 1984, Zhang Aijia resigned as a director due to physical weakness in order to concentrate on filmmaking.
She has starred in films such as "Bad Size", "Shanghai Night", "Sea Flower", "Seven Years Itch", "Daughter Body", "Spring and Autumn Tea Room", "Sour and Sweet" (British film), "Man in New York" (also known as "The Story of Three Women").
In April 1980, she went to Shantou, Guangdong Province, and other places to shoot for "Eight Two Gold", and she also visited scenic spots and historical sites in Beijing and participated in concerts.
Wearing the crown of Taiwan and Hong Kong film queens, the first person to shoot on the mainland was Zhang Aijia.
Zhang Aijia has filmed more than 60 films, and has played prostitutes, poor wives, teachers, pure love girls, mothers, princesses, female ghosts, etc.
She is sometimes dignified and deep, sometimes abrupt and witty, and is an actress with a fixed image and a wide play path.
Her performance experience is that when she is an actor, she adds to life what the choreographer writes on paper, and expresses it with action expressions and rationality.